Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Ian C. Lucas Excerpts
Thursday 10th April 2014

(10 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ian C. Lucas Portrait Ian Lucas (Wrexham) (Lab)
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Is it not interesting that no Conservatives or Liberal Democrats are standing up to ask a question about small business? I saw a small business in Wrexham and spoke to Mr Phil Jackson of Fotofire, who told me that the Jobs Growth Wales scheme has enabled him to employ young people in a rapidly expanding media business. Will the Minister do something positive by looking at a scheme that is providing jobs for more than 9,000 young people in Wales, with 75% employment for those who go on the scheme in the first place?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matthew Hancock
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I am very glad to say that unemployment is falling throughout Wales as part of our long-term economic plan across the country. I am sure that in Wrexham, as elsewhere in the country, small businesses will be celebrating the fact that they are getting £2,000 off their jobs tax, which the Labour party has proposed to put up.